Google Cloud - Architecting with Google Compute Engine
Code: GCP-CE
Length: 3 days
URL: View Online
This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on
Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution
elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy
practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas
and billing, and resource monitoring.
Skills Gained
Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Implement VPC networks and firewall rules
Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
Implement data storage services in Google Cloud
Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources
Monitor resources using Google Cloud services
Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
Leverage managed services in Google Cloud
Who Can Benefit
Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and
infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine
Prerequisites
Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience
Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public
cloud environment
Course Details
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
Create Cloud Storage buckets
Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Module 2: Virtual Networks
List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
Explore VPC Networking
Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Module 3: Virtual Machines
Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
Describe the disk options for virtual machines
Explain VM pricing and discounts
Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Describe the Cloud IAM resource hierarchy.
Explain the different types of IAM roles.
Recall the different types of IAM members.
Implement access control for resources using Cloud IAM.
Module 5: Storage and Database Services
Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Bigtable.
Choose a data storage service based on your requirements.
Implement data storage services.
Module 6: Resource Management
Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
Organize resources using labels
Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
Examine billing data with BigQuery
Module 7: Resource Monitoring
Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
Module 8: Interconnecting Networks
Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud.
Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances.
Create and configure VPN gateways.
Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering.
Module 9: Load Balancing and Autoscaling
Recall the various load balancing services.
Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances.
Describe autoscaling behavior.
Configure load balancers and autoscaling
Module 10: Infrastructure Modernization
Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Deployment Manager or Terraform.
Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Module 11: Managed Services
Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud.
Schedule (as of 2025-03-17)
Date Location
May 21, 2025 – May 23, 2025 Live Virtual Enroll
Jul 16, 2025 – Jul 18, 2025 Live Virtual Enroll
Sep 10, 2025 – Sep 12, 2025 Live Virtual Enroll
Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025 Live Virtual Enroll
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